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The microscope is one of the most iconic symbols of science, at least equal to the white coat or bubbling neon liquids in its ability to endow scientific credibility in the eyes of TV viewers Read more…

NeNa came alive again this October, embracing evolution, artificial neural networks, and brain scaling. Eighteen years in the making, the conference organized for junior scientists by junior scientists celebrated its birthday with many friendly companions: Read more…

You have most surely seen an image of the iconic lab mouse, a pristinely white rodent with dark red eyes standing on its hindlegs while looking quizzically up at the camera. Less certain is what Read more…

Prometheus Science has a crystal clear goal in mind: To spread the availability of science and education by creating affordable scientific-grade equipment. These tools will empower people to interact with their environments around them, as Read more…

Our genes are the ultimate blueprint for who we are and how we look. They decide simple characteristics of our appearance like hair or eye colour as well as more complex traits such as height Read more…

It’s that time of the year again. And no, I am not talking about Christmas. I am talking about Graduate School Applications. Chances are that if pursuing a Master’s or a PhD has crossed your mind Read more…

With the advancement of medicine and health practices in the modern era, the average age of the population has increased. The healthcare system has continually been pushed to adapt in order to properly care for Read more…

Introducing new scientists in Tübingen – presenting: Dr. Ivana Nikić- Spiegel The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is part of the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen and provides space for Read more…

Who does not know the slightly awkward situation when a family member asks you what exactly your thesis or dissertation is about? Everyone has probably realised at some point that breaking your research down to Read more…

Leon Gatys is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Matthias Bethge at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience in Tübingen. In his PhD work, he uses deep convolutional neural networks, computational algorithms inspired by Read more…

Replication ­– the ability to find the same effect repeatedly in independent experiments — is a cornerstone of experimental science. However, the published literature is likely full of irreplicable results [1, 2]. There are many Read more…

Cross-breeding between species has long been reported for horses and donkeys, which gives rise to mules and more recently for tigers and lions (‘Liger’) and bovines and antelopes (‘Beefelo’), but is cross-breeding between great apes Read more…

On October 8th, 2016, about a dozen people sat in an auditorium in Zürich and raced each other purely with their thoughts. Hooked up to various computers and sensors, they used their brain activity to Read more…

Pro-Test Deutschland e.V. started out as a small grassroots organization, fueled by the disinclination of scientists to speak openly about the use of animals in research. It was the reluctance to open up about science Read more…

We work in a town with a green mayor, a state with a green prime minister, and a country that aims to effectively eliminate carbon emissions by 2050. While political decisions play an important part, Read more…

On a cool September day, a handful of young neuroscientists gathered in Tübingen to kick-off the start to another NeNa conference (in German, Neurowissenschaftliche Nachwuchskonferenz). Like the year before, and the year before that, we Read more…

Visual ecology in the deep sea: bioluminescence The deep sea is by far the largest habitat on earth and yet our knowledge about its inhabitants is rudimentary at best, and progressing only slowly. Historic concepts about Read more…

In past years NeNa has always been that conference where young scientists go to have a good time, all the while engaging in the usual scientific activities, such as presenting posters, giving talks and attending Read more…

I’d be extremely curious right now to see how popular science is in secondary schools. In my time at secondary school during the early days of social media, science was still considered an old fashioned Read more…

A review of Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow In our academic and professional lives as young scientists, we are encouraged to memorise facts and to focus on Read more…

Finches What are birds? Just wind-up toys, given a tickle by the cherubic sun, off to set their clockwork tumbling? And we eat it up rhapsodic, study their ineffable blood and guts in labs, with Read more…

From the very beginning, right after deciding to study science, the academic career seems to be fixed: bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, and probably a series of post-docs afterwards. But this path is not made for everyone. Read more…

So much of research tends to be a sort of chaotic self-directed learning experience, little nuggets of information coming from many different resources, sometimes with no way to tie them all together. Our lives today Read more…

I love science. I really love science (and particularly neuroscience), humanity’s great cultural endeavor to understand the world and ourselves. Unfortunately, science is broken. It is broken in many ways, not only in the way Read more…

Ever been curious to know a little more about what your friends and colleagues in Tübingen work on, what secrets they have uncovered while living here, and what inspired them to come and work here Read more…

If you are a neuroscientist, whether your day-to-day involves running rats through a radial arm maze or changing the medium in your stem cells, you might not have had much experience programming. If you happen to Read more…

The leaves wore the sun like a dress, elegant and fitting. Their crisp outlines were recreated by the water, or perhaps a painter, intricately melding the warm autumn palate together. I let my fingers drag like Read more…

At some point, after slaving away, beating back the failures, and tasting the sweet success of a scientific discovery, we must ask ourselves, ‘How do I present this to other people?’ I’m referring to the visual Read more…

Though most people believe that it is the supervisor’s position to ask the questions, my personal experience has taught me that you (the PhD student) have a lot to ask as well. A PhD project Read more…

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